The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 4
The ogre and ogress scrambled into the oven as quick as thought, and the fox banged the door on them; just as he did so the king came up.
Who acts: ogre, fox, king · What happens: scramble, bang, do, come up · To what, where: oven, door
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogre, fox, king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ogre | det |
| 2 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scrambled | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ogress | cc |
| 4 | ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ogre | conj |
| 5 | scrambled | scramble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 oven | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 oven | det |
| 8 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scrambled | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 quick | advmod |
| 10 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 oven | amod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 thought | case |
| 12 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 quick | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 banged | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 banged | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fox | det |
| 16 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 banged | nsubj |
| 17 | banged | bang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scrambled | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 banged | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 banged | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 did | punct |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 26 did | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 did | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 did | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scrambled | conj |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 came | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 king | det |
| 29 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 came | nsubj |
| 30 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 did | advcl |
| 31 | up | up | ADV | _ | 30 came | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scrambled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scramble | past | the ogre and ogress | the oven | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into oven=Destination | ||||
| 2 | bang | past | the fox | the door | on ogre | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent door=Theme on they=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | do | past | fox | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come up | past | the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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